Does Country Music need the Steel Guitar ,or does the Steel

[Joe Casey]

It is great too hear that some are finding Rock gigs but they are not in the majority as most rock gigs can get by without a Steel,especially with the effects they can use..If anyone thinks the future of the Steel guitar is in rock music dream on..It's good that there are some able to display what a steel can do and even make a living in other musics, but it will all come down to what is actually needed...As long as great players are developed there is a future..There are no limits in what the instrument can do,just limited opertunities at this moment.

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CJC

[CA Brown]

What exactly is Country Music? It is surely not that stuff you hear on the radiobeing called country music.I think they need to give it another name to call it country is just plain WRONG.When "Nervana" came screaming out of Seattle they called that "grunge". When everyone started to copy that and add their own style they called it "alternative rock".When Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath took off they called that Heavy Metal.So why is it when this new music started to come out of Nashville they called it country when it was anything but that.It is a completely different style of music that may some what resemble country but is a totaly new idea for music that needs its own name.I go into a record store and they have Shania Twain right there next to Conway Twitty. There is some thing Bad wrong with that.If people want to listen to that I say so be it.But I think the record companies should give the title of "country music" back to the people who love it. And take their alternative pop sounding wanna be country to another city so we can have Nashville back to. Oh yah and by the way what I believe to be country music does need the steel guitar.But most of all i need the steel guitar. just my opinion CB